ALLISON ZUCKERMAN Curatorial Statement
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ALLISON ZUCKERMAN
Curatorial Statement

POWER SHIFT brings together my early work with that of Evelyne Axell, allowing our perspectives on femininity, power, and self-expression to interact and resonate with one another in St. Agnes’s im...
AMIR FATTAL <br>Blurring Realities in Modern Art
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AMIR FATTAL
Blurring
Realities in Modern Art

Amir Fattal, JOEL'S HOUSE, 2023. For my POST-ARTIFICIAL PAINTINGS exhibition, AI takes center stage, transforming visual data into a reflection of our own tastes and desires. Given its role in the...
Alice Anderson <br> Winner of the SAME Prize 2023
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Alice Anderson
Winner of the SAM Prize 2023

KÖNIG GALERIE congratulates Alice Anderson for receiving the 15th SAM Prize for Contemporary Art. As part of the prize, the artist will travel to Brazil to realize her project titled SOLIDARITY WITH NON-HUMANS...
ZSÓFIA KERESZTES <br> Embracing Duality
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ZSÓFIA KERESZTES
Embracing
Duality

We accompanied Zsófia Keresztes during her preparations for the exhibition IN ETHYLENE ARMS, which is on view in the Nave of St. Agnes. Known for her fondness for creating large-scale sculptures out of pastel-colored…
PRIX NICE (HE)ART X ASIA NOW
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Prix Nice (He)Art X Asia Now

We are pleased to announce that Monira Al Qadiri was awarded the Prix Nice (He)art x Asia Now. The artist received the prize on the occasion of Asia Now art fair, where we presented Al Qadiri‘s ...
JOHANN KÖNIG Was mit Kunst
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JOHANN KÖNIG
Was mit Kunst

In "Was mit Kunst", Johann König explains the exclusive art world by interviewing artists, curators, and art collectors. A unique approach to influential players in the art scene...
BOSCO SODI The World is a Membrane
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BOSCO SODI
The World is a Membrane

For Bosco Sodi, this process involves a further step that complicates and enriches the usual relationship of matter to form, creator to creation, work to worker, art to artist: Sodi invites the...
Koo Jeong A Selected for South Korea Pavilion at 60th Venice Biennale
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Koo Jeong A
Selected for South Korea Pavilion at 60th Venice Biennale

We are delighted to congratulate KOO JEONG A on being selected to represent South Korea at the 60th Venice Biennale in 2024. ODARAMA CITIES will transform the cylindrical structure of the national pavilion into an olfactory journey through the spells familiar to urban centers in South Korea. The pavilion is co-curated by members of the Kunsthal Aarhus...
Spotlight Seoul
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Spotlight Seoul

In September of this year, the art world descended on Seoul as the Korean capital played host to the inaugural edition of Frieze Seoul. König Seoul welcomed fair visitors and others...
REFIK ANADOL What dreams may come
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REFIK ANADOL
What Dreams May Come

In Refik Anadol’s artistic practice, machines can perform what once seemed strictly reserved to the domain of the living – to dream and imagine. This represents a revolution in the creative process...
JUSTIN MATHERLY New Beaches
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JUSTIN MATHERLY
New Beaches

For over a decade now, Brooklyn-based artist Justin Matherly has been exploring the art of Roman and Greek antiquity and its reinterpretation in his work. One monumental example is his New Beaches,...
NIKLAS MAAK On WERNER DÜTTMANN
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NIKLAS MAAK on
WERNER DÜTTMANN

Can you imagine that the top planner of a big city isn’t a harassed bureaucrat who spends his time in competition juries and endless meetings, frustratedly munching on the dry biscuits with a sticky blob of...
The Grand Opening PETER DREHER and SOPHIE HUNGER
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The Grand Opening
PETER DREHER and
SOPHIE HUNGER

Over the last forty-four years Peter Dreher created a series of roughly five thousand works, depicting the very same glass again and again. Starting in the 1970s, when realist painting was a provocation in…
KARL HORST HÖDICKE Crucified in the Act
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KARL HORST HÖDICKE
Crucified in the Act

When juxtaposing selected works by Hödicke and Ballesteros, we find intriguing intersections, allowing the viewer to make two key discoveries. Firstly, there are the clearly identifiable motifs and…
ERWIN WURM and JUERGEN TELLER
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ERWIN WURM
and JUERGEN TELLER

The Erwin Wurm & Juergen Teller shoot at the Villa “Le Lac” Le Corbusier took place as part of Erwin Wurm’s “One Minute Sculpture” special project featured at Festival Images Vevey / Switzerland in…
ALICJA KWADE Self-portrait
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ALICJA KWADE
Self-portrait

Alicja Kwade has had her genetic code analyzed, yielding some 259.025 pages of information. She has compiled individual sections into files that have been rendered into NFTs...
ANNETTE KELM at Haus Ludwig
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ANNETTE KELM
at House Ludwig

Built in 1953, Haus Ludwig in Aachen, once residence of the art collectors Peter and Irene Ludwig, can best be described as an artwork in itself. Displaying objects from different eras and ...
ROBERT JANITZ Made in New York
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ROBERT JANITZ
Made in New York

Distanz Verlag has dedicated a cataloge to his large-scale canvas works of the New York years: Robert Janitz, Made in New York (144 pages, 2020). The following is an excerpt from the artist’s perso...
ALICJA KWADE Dear Miss Warren...
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ALICJA KWADE
Dear Miss Warren...

In February 1944, nuclear physicist Maria Goeppert Mayer sent a handwritten letter to Sarah Lawrence College in New York – nothing unusual about that. At the time, the letter’s author was...
The Future Belongs to Female Collectors
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The Future Belongs
to
Female Collectors

Distribution systems have gone digital while appropriate attention is being paid to the historical as well as contemporary contributions of women. In search of an interface offering opportunities. History teaches……
JOHN SEAL The Ruins of the Day
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JOHN SEAL
The Ruins of the Day

At first glance, John Seal’s mysterious pair of paintings appears innocuous, peaceful, almost kitsch. In the first work, the painted cups, adorned with ships and flowers, tower in the foreground of a lush…
CHIHARU SHIOTA A Room of Memory
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CHIHARU SHIOTA
A Room of Memory

Standing in an installation by Japanese artist Chiharu Shiota, Berliner of choice since 1999, is like poking your head under a curtain into a space of collective memories. You suddenly find yourself…
WERNER DÜTTMANN
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WERNER DÜTTMANN

In the year 2021 the Berlin architect, urban planner, Academy president and artist Werner Düttmann (1921-1983) would have celebrated his 100th birthday. During his lifetime he was a key figure in the cultural…
ELMGREEN & DRAGSET Statue of Liberty
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ELMGREEN & DRAGSET
Statue of Liberty

Thirty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, on June 21, 2019, a single segment of the wall found its way back into the public sphere of the German capital. Yet this time not as a threat to the ...
Sensitive Euro Man FRIEDRICH KUNATH
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Sensitive Euro Man
FRIEDRICH KUNATH

German Romanticism is the most German of all German art ideas. It is the expression of, and opposition to, emergent modernism, and probably the last rearguard action against the relentless advance ...
ALICJA KWADE & JOSÉ DAVILA Intersecting Practices
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ALICJA KWADE
&
JOSE DÁVILA
Intersecting Practices

The practices of Alicja Kwade and Jose Dávila are both broad and distinct. Each artist has ventured successfully into an array of mediums: video in Kwade’s case, and painting in Dávila’s; but it is in…
EVELYNE AXELL Striptease à Rebours
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EVELYNE AXELL
Striptease à Rebours

She started with the tights, the underwear, and then the bra. The sensuality of it all drove the audience crazy,” said the film-maker Jean Antoine about his wife Evelyne Axell’s performance at her opening…
In Partial Shade
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In Partial Shade

A garden is like a gallery, a museum, a church, a city, in fact, it is like the whole world. The more you know, the more you see. In spring 2016 – just one year after König Galerie moved into the…
ISA GENZKEN New Wall Pieces 2017
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ISA GENZKEN
New Wall Pieces 2017

Isa Genzken began a series of wall pieces in autumn of 2016 in her Berlin studio which she finished in summer of 2017. The resulting works don’t have titles. Isa Genzken sometimes smilingly calls them...
MONA ARDELEANU Filo
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MONA ARDELEANU
Filo

At first glance, her paintings seem like something you’ll have to research. Mona Ardeleanu masterfully paints virtuously folded fabric bundles, bound textile objects, hair, and an origami of traditional costumes...
GUILLERMO DEL TORO Untitled, LA
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GUILLERMO DEL TORO
Untitled, LA

In a short essay, film director and author Guillermo del Toro (Pan’s Labyrinth, The Shape of Water), who was also born in Guadalajara, refers to Dávila’s installation when he describes Los Angeles as …
RINUS VAN DE VELDE News From The Comfort Zone
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RINUS VAN DE VELDE
News from the Comfort Zone

I remember a story I once read about a filmmaker who had a daily ritual for coming up with a new brilliant idea for his next movie, he would stand naked on his balcony, high, overlooking the city until he…
TATIANA TROUVÉ <br> On the Eve of Never Leaving
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TATIANA TROUVÉ:
On the Eve of Never Leaving

A journey with Tatiana Trouvé through the poetry of Fernando Pessoa: The sleep falling over me, The mental sleep falling physically over me, the universal sleep falling individually over me – this sleep …
DANIEL TURNER EMP Step
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DANIEL TURNER
EMP STEP

In the fall of 2016, Swiss-born Daniel Humm, the current chef de cuisine and co-owner of New York’s three-star restaurant Eleven Madison Park, stands, stunned, in an exhibition by artist Daniel Turner. …
AUSTYN WEINER Vertigo
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AUSTYN WEINER
Vertigo

Just watching the world spin is enough to make you dizzy. You don’t have to be apocalyptically inclined to understand that there are no clear paths left. At the very least, there is a sense of trepidation that…
LOIE HOLLOWELL The Scared Contract
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LOIE HOLLOWELL
The
Scared Contract

Loie Hollowell explores physicality and sensuality in large-scale, color-intense paintings that oscillate between abstraction and figuration. In her text, Anneli Botz describes the artist’s process in…
MICHAEL SAILSTORFER The Road that No One Looks Upon
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MICHAEL SAILSTORFER
The Road that No One
Looks Upon

In October 2017, König London opened its doors on Edgware Road in Marylebone. Twelve months later, Berlin-based artist Michael Sailstorfer came to the city to prepare his solo exhibition „Tear Show“. He met…
HELEN MARTEN Left and Right Hemispheres
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HELEN MARTEN
Left and Right Hemispheres

In preparation for her exhibition Fixed Sky Situation at König Galerie in January 2019, Helen Marten invited photographer Lewis Ronald to her London-based studio to document her production in process…
BERNAR VENET NY Stock Exchange 1969
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BERNAR VENET
NY Stock Exchange 1969

It was the first time in history that financial news became art when Bernar Venet appropriated Clem Morgello’s prominent Newsweek business section as an artwork in 1969. Venet’s blow-up prints were part of…
INTO THE DAZZLING LIGHT
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TIMON KARL KALEYTA
Into
the Dazzling Light

Today, Kaleyta is a columnist, screen-writer, and most recently, he’s been writing novels. Here’s an excerpt from the final chapter of his award-winning debut, Die Geschichte eines einfachen Mannes…
FRIEDRICH KUNATH Trouble in Paradise
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FRIEDRICH KUNATH
Trouble in Paradise

Within California’s famous beauty and grace, there has always been a peculiar melancholy. It could be said that it has always been boldly opposed to the general good mood of this place – its necessary opposite…
ELMGREEN & DRAGSET: Installing Useless Bodies?
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ELMGREEN & DRAGSET
Installing Useless Bodies?

For four years, Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset worked on their major solo exhibition, transforming the new spaces of the Fondazione Prada in Milan into several immersive installations, which address the…
JULIAN ROSEFELDT Penumbra
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JULIAN ROSEFELDT
Penumbra

Julian Rosefeldt’s 85-minute film PENUMBRA is not a work of science fiction. Instead, it points to our current situation, albeit within a fictious framework that paves the way for a paradoxical enigma...
ANDREAS MÜHE A German Intervention
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ANDREAS MÜHE
A German Intervention

A woman sits by the window. The car has stopped, the engine is running. The window is a spotless, bulletproof pane of glass. A ray of sunlight falls on her weary face. She turns to look outside, toward the chalk cliffs...
DANIEL ARSHAM
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DANIEL ARSHAM

Daniel Arsham’s work explores the zeitgeist and feeds off pop culture. His depictions of eroding sneakers, cassette players, Polaroid cameras, and Pokémon are an expression of his artistic concept of…
Jose Dávila Drops His First Nft
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Jose Dávila Drops His First Nft

Over the past six years, Jose Dávila has created a series of cut-out works that emerged from the pictorial language of Pablo Picasso, Roy Lichtenstein, among others, with a special emphasis on portraits and paintings depicting the human figure…
IST DAS KUNST? An Arte Documentary
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IST DAS KUNST?
An Arte Documentary

Time and again, incredible record values achieved by works of art at international auctions have astonished the world. But how is the value of a work of art actually determined? What makes art art?...
WHAT BEAUTY IS, I KNOW NOT
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WHAT BEAUTY IS, I KNOW NOT

The summer exhibition at KÖNIG GALERIE in 2019 was curated by Kasper König, father of gallerist Johann König. It was the first time that he and his son had worked together in this way...
TATIANA TROUVÉ
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TATIANA TROUVÉ

There are various ways to arrive somewhere. Every person can choose between long, medium and short paths. The artist Tatiana Trouvé proposes yet another possibility: to no longer focus on the length and…
JEPPE HEIN The Inhospitality of Our Cities
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JEPPE HEIN
The Inhospitality of Our Cities

Taking English landscape parks as their model, liberal members of society like gardener Peter Joseph Lenné created the first public gardens and parks in Germany to offer all townspeople aesthetic pleasure and grant them respite from the rapidly advancing Industrial Revolution...
DAVID ZINK YI News from the Comfort Zone
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DAVID ZINK YI
News from the Comfort Zone

Inspiration strikes in moments of enlightenment and it comes in totally different ways. There are too many to list. I generally feel more inspired by experiences than by specific places. Things like…
KATHARINA GROSSE Choreographies in Color
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KATHARINA GROSSE
Choreographies in Color

Katharina Grosse’s Untitled (2019) slices the exhibition space of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in two. Its surface is densely saturated with Grosse’s signature high-octane colors: tourmaline greens meet…
ANNETTE KELM Rescuing Problems in the Future World
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ANNETTE KELM
Rescuing Problems in the Future World

The series titled »Die Bücher« (The Books) by Annette Kelm began in 2019 on the occasion of the group exhibition »tell me about yesterday tomorrow« at the NS Documentation Center in Munich. The artist dedicates herself to the books that fell victim to the burnings and bans...
TUE GREENFORT & EMANUELE COCCIA
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TUE GREENFORT
& EMANUELE COCCIA

One is from the world of fine arts, the other is a philosopher – but they share a common theme: the relationship between plants and animals. Greenfort and Coccia approach the same topic from completely different angles...
KATHARINA GROSSE It Wasn't Us
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KATHARINA GROSSE
It Wasn't Us

The Austrian author Kathrin Röggla and Katharina Grosse are connected in various ways with one another—both are part of the non-profit alliance „WE DO THAT!“ and are engaged members of the Akademie der…
MATTHIAS WEISCHER Mentoring Space
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MATTHIAS WEISCHER
Mentoring Space

In over two decades of painting, Matthias Weischer has built a practice that continues to imagine a unique spatiality within the limits of the two-dimensional medium. The human figure is rarely pre...
KRIS MARTIN Phoenix
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KRIS MARTIN
Phoenix

In the twelfth century it became an annual tradition for penitential preachers to call for the staging, on Ash Wednesday, of a bonfire of...
JOHN SEAL Ha-Ha Picturesque
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JOHN SEAL
Ha-Ha Picturesque

One of the key privileges afforded to eighteenth-century aristocratic guests of London’s Chiswick House was the opportunity to survey its prodigious gardens. The further one wandered from the Palladian…
BOSCO SODI Casa Wabi
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BOSCO SODI
Casa Wabi

Founded in 2014 by Mexican artist Bosco Sodi, the non-profit art center Casa Wabi provides a platform to engage and connect with...
NFT – c’est quoi?
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NFT c’est quoi?

A few weeks ago hardly anyone was thinking about NFTs, then suddenly there were a few new auction records: 69 million USD for a digital painting by Beeple at Christie’s, for example. Suddenly the whole world...